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Château de Champs-sur-Marne
Near Paris, the château de Champs-sur-Marne was part of the vast estate assembled by the financier Poisson de Bourvallais at the end of Louis XIV's reign. Built in the early eighteenth century, it belonged to the dukes of La Vallière, who received there the Encyclopaedists Diderot, d'Alembert, Voltaire... The Marquise de Pompadour rented it in 1757–1758. The château was restored in the late nineteenth century by Louis Cahen d'Anvers; the building lies on the axis of a long perspective that descends in stages to the Marne. The decoration of the apartments reflects the evolving taste of the successive owners: monochrome paintings of the boudoir and oval drawing room, rocaille panelling of the Chinese drawing room created for the Duke of La Vallière, delicate wood panelling of the Marquise de Pompadour's bedroom. In 1935, Charles Cahen d'Anvers, son of Louis, gave the State the château and a park of 84 hectares. The State then endowed the château with magnificent furniture. Albert Lebrun, President of the Republic, made it a national palace to house France's prestigious guests, a purpose the national estate of Champs-sur-Marne kept until 1974.
